Harvey Friedman (born 1959), sometimes credited as Harvey Friedmann, is an American film, television and theatre actor.
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Early life and education
He was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and studied drama at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh.
Career
Friedman began his acting career in the theatre. He toured Germany with a theater company and settled in Berlin, Germany.
He has appeared on German television and in international co-productions since the 1980s and played Dr. Joseph Goebbels in the film Valkyrie (2008), directed by Bryan Singer.
Partial film and television work
1988: Midnight Cop
1989: Fool's Mate
1990: The Being from Earth
1997: Trouville Beach
1997: Meschugge
1999: How Norman Mailer Stabbed His Wife in the Breast
2001: My Sweet Home
2002: Berlin Beshert
2003: Hitler: The Rise of Evil, television miniseries
2004: Beyond the Sea
2008: Speed Racer
2008: Valkyrie
2009: Ceasefire
2013: Global Player
2013: The Voices
2015: Sense8
2015: Die Akte General
2015: Stefan Zweig: Farewell to Europe
2017: Submergence
2018: Murer – Anatomie eines Prozesses
2020: Unorthodox
2020: Spides
2023: Transatlantic
Personal life
After settling in Germany, Friedman married Cynthia Barcomi, an American coffee-roaster and cookbook author.